The beginning of the eighty years war
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The feuilleton appeared in book form 2 years laterwhen sientje is accepted into a talent show and asks jacob to follow along, they travel by train from amsterdam through the middle ages, the eighty years’ war, a rocket trip to the achterhoek and other experiences to finally, without success, arrive back at the capitalamong others, he wrote for television programmes such as de stratemakeropzeeshow, het klokhuis, de film van ome willem, sesamstraat, jwilmink was an important authorplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitefirst publication in newspaper de waarheidhe also wrote many songs for musicalsin he became a full-time lyricist for herman van veen, boudewijn de groot and many morewillem vleeschouwer caricatures the absurd experiences of a pair of secret lovers - the travel-averse jacob maneschijn and his downstairs neighbour sientje zeesterthe presence of father abraham is funny here, with a smurf on his shoulder who can’t stand the whiningcatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablede bom voorheen de kindervriend and kinderen voor kinderenwill be packaged with care and shipped by registered mailare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiafter wilmink's death in , the story reappeared in hardcover formour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any store
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Oxfam bookshop tunbridge wells the origins of the first world war annika mombauer very good condition paperback the book focuses on the controversy itself, rather than the specific events leading up to the warthe seminal event of the 20th century, the origins of the first world war have always been difficult to establish and have aroused deep controversyemotive and emotional from the very beginning of the conflict, the debate and the passions aroused in response to such issues as the 'war-guilt paragraph' of the treaty of versailles, are set in the context of the times in which they were proposed there a sticky label on the backcover over the barcode that has been mostly removedtext is unmarkedwere they really justified? see oxfam website for delivery information read moreannika mombauer tracks the impassioned debates as they developed at critical points through the twentieth centurysimilarly, the argument has been fuelled by concerns over the sacrifices that were made and the casualities that were suffered
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3d silver george v coin the beginning of the great war supplied in a plastic sleeve for storage and protection read more
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On an icy motorway eighty kilometres outside the city, a fuel tanker jack-knifes and explodesthe lone wolf is glimpsed on the hard shoulder and photographed by tomasz, a polish construction worker who cannot survive in germany without his girlfriendthose who catch sight of the wolf see their own lives reflected, and find themselves searching for a different path in a cold timeoxfam bookshop cheltenham "a highly original and often hypnotic worktranslated from the german by jamie bulloch see oxfam website for delivery information read morethis first novel of germany's most celebrated contemporary playwright is written in prose of tremendous power and precisionelisabeth and micha run away through the snow from their home village, crossing the wolf's tracks on their way to the cityhis trail leads all the way to berlin, connecting the lives of disparate individuals whose paths intersect and divergea woman burns her mother's diaries on a berlin balconyand elisabeth's father, a famous sculptor, observes the vast skeleton of a whale in his studio and asks: what am i doing here? and why? experiences and encounters flicker past with a raw, visual power, like frames in a black and white filmexactly the type of book that readers in search of striking european voices should embrace" john boyne, author of the boy in the striped pyjamasa contemporary berlin fairy tale that bristles with urban truths - the first novel of germany's best-known contemporary playwright one clear, ice-cold january morning shortly after dawn, a wolf crosses the border between poland and germany
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The war was both a religious and a political one and it was this tangle of motives that made it impossible to stopoxfam bookshop shaftesbury winner of the society for military history distinguished book award the horrific series of conflicts known as the thirty years war () tore the heart out of europe, killing perhaps a quarter of all germans and laying waste to whole areas of central europe to such a degree that many towns and regions never recoveredpeter wilson's book is a major work, the first new history of the war in a generation, and a fascinating, brilliantly written attempt to explain a compelling series of eventsall the major european powers apart from russia were heavily involved and, while each country started out with rational war aims, the fighting rapidly spiralled out of control, with great battles giving way to marauding bands of starving soldiers spreading plague and murderat its end a recognizably modern europe had been created but at a terrible price book condition very good, covers and spine unmarked and all pages crisp and cleanthe principal actors in the drama (wallenstein, ferdinand ii, gustavus adolphus, richelieu) are all here, but so is the experience of the ordinary soldiers and civilians, desperately trying to stay alive under impossible circumstancessee oxfam website for delivery information read morewhether motivated by idealism or cynicism, everyone drawn into the conflict was destroyed by itwilson's great strength is in allowing the reader to understand the tragedy of mixed motives that allowed rulers to gamble their countries' future with such horrifying results
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The war is overoxfam shop inverness pungent tales of world war two converge with more distant memories of the thirty years war in this powerful, compelling debut novelset in the borderlands between germany and poland, this powerful first novel is reminiscent in mood, complexity and accomplishment of pat barker's world war one trilogy or sebastian faulks' birdsongmeanwhile, a colleague is much more concerned with unravelling uncannily similar events three hundred years old, events twisted by the centuries into their current, misshapen form, as the fairy-story of the pied piper of hamelina young british army doctor finds himself ordered to investigate a curious plague in a polish refugee campwhat he finds there is deeply unsettling and harrowingsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham 'like a punch from a mailed fist, master of war gives a true taste of the hundred years waras he fights his way across northern france, blackstone learns the brutal lessons of war - from the terror and confusion of his first taste of combat, to the savage realities of siege warfareengland, : for thomas blackstone the choice is easy - dance on the end of a rope for a murder he did not commit, or take up his war bow and join the king's invasionit is a gripping chronicle of pitched battle, treachery and crueltysee oxfam website for delivery information read moreit is a battle that will change the history of warfare, a battle that will change the course of blackstone's life, a battle that will forge a legendthe stench and harshness of medieval life is ever present' robert fabbri, bestselling author of the vespasian seriesvastly outnumbered, edward iii's army will finally confront the armoured might of the french nobility on the field of crécy
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The creation of britain's 'mandates' of palestine, transjordan and iraq, and france's in lebanon and syria, made the two powers uneasy neighbours for the following thirty yearsagainst the odds their pact survived the war to form the basis for the post-war division of the region into five new countries britain and france would rulein , after many years of intrigue and espionage, britain finally succeeded in ousting france from lebanon and syria, and hoped that, having done so, it would be able to cling on to palestineit explains exactly how the old antagonism between these two powers inflamed the more familiar modern rivalry between the arabs and the jews, and ultimately led to war between the british and the french in and between the arabs and the jews inoxfam books & music marlborough in , in the middle of the first world war, two men secretly agreed to divide the middle east between themterritory north of that stark line would go to france; land south of it, to britainthrough a stellar cast of politicians, diplomats, spies and soldiers, including tsir mark sykes was a visionary politician; françois georges-picot a diplomat with a grudgesee oxfam website for delivery information read morelawrence, winston churchill and charles de gaulle, a line in the sand vividly tells the story of the short but crucial era when britain and france ruled the middle eastusing newly declassified papers from the british and french archives, james barr brings this overlooked clandestine struggle back to life, and reveals, for the first time, the stunning way in which the french finally got their revengethe deal they struck, which was designed to relieve tensions that threatened to engulf the entente cordiale, drew a line in the sand from the mediterranean to the persian frontier
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Death of wolverine ( published: october writer: charles soule cover artist: steve mcniven it's the beginning of the end - 3 months to die ends here! - the beginning of the end is now herethe death of wolverine! - three months to die, the loss of wolverine's healing factor--all led to this, the single most important x-men event of the decadebut now, the greatest x-men hero will play a role he's never played before in this special weekly event brought to you by industry superstars charles soule and steve mcnivenlogan has spent over a century being the best there is at what he doesbut even the best fade away eventuallyover the years, logan has been a warrior, a hero, a renegade, a samurai, a teacher-and so much more
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Oxfam shop st giles street a deadly continental struggle, the thirty years war devastated seventeenth-century europe, killing nearly a quarter of all germans and laying waste to towns and countryside alike see oxfam website for delivery information read morepeter wilson offers the first new history in a generation of a horrifying conflict that transformed the map of the modern worldsome scuff on the hard cover and edges of the pages
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Oxfam bookshop lymington this book traces the life and work of a painter twenty years old at the beginning of the twentieth centurythe four years were full of travel and abrupt changes of location, passion, poverty, depression and inspirationthe work of the blue and rose periods was produced by a very young man in a span of hardly more than four yearsvery good condition with just some light tanning to the white parts of the dust jacket and some light edge wear to the jacketsee oxfam website for delivery information read more51 colour reproductions - oils, gouaches, pastel; 20 pen & pencil drawings in two tones show the full range of the artist's styleart series which offers a series of monographs on the great masters of modern artit would have taken any other artist decades of reflection and formulation
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Jude is a stunning pre spanish gelding and is 11 years oldhe was imported at the beginning of the year, in spain he was used for festivals and trekkingopen to vet, no loans or lwvtb, transport available anywhere at buyers costto ride jude would take a competent novice upwards, in the ménage he works in all 3 paces, he has excellent breaks and has never bucked/reared or bronkedjude has seen poles and has started popping a cross polejude is sweet and kind to deal with, good with dentist and farrier and vet, he is up to with allthis lovely boy has the biggest personality and loves his human contact, he is a very intelligent chap that loves to be doing something be it under saddle or following his human around the arena or fieldhe isn’t spooky or silly and again he has excellent brakes in open spaceshacking jude does so alone or in company, he does this we find better in company as this is what he has been used to, on his own occasionally he needs a little more encouragement to go forward, he doesn’t do anything bad just stops and takes in his surroundings!!! out on the road jude has seen very heavy traffic including big farm machinery and isn’t bothered
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Jude is a stunning pre spanish gelding and is 11 years oldhe was imported at the beginning of the year, in spain he was used for festivals and trekkingopen to vet, no loans or lwvtb, transport available anywhere at buyers costout on the road jude has seen very heavy traffic including big farm machinery and isn’t botheredto ride jude would take a competent novice upwards, in the ménage he works in all 3 paces, he has excellent breaks and has never bucked/reared or bronkedjude has seen poles and has started popping a cross polejude is sweet and kind to deal with, good with dentist and farrier and vet, he is up to with allthis lovely boy has the biggest personality and loves his human contact, he is a very intelligent chap that loves to be doing something be it under saddle or following his human around the arena or fieldhe isn’t spooky or silly and again he has excellent brakes in open spaceshacking jude does so alone or in company, he does this we find better in company as this is what he has been used to but he is getting better going on his own on every outing
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A full collection of images of war magazines a full and comprensive history of world war two in four volumes and a partial set of hitlers third reich a cracking present for anybody interested in the history of the second world war read more
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham one hundred years since the outbreak of the first world war, the polish poet wioletta greg undertakes a literary journey through her own family history, exploring in both poetry and prose a century of life, death, love and tragedywith passion, tenderness and humour, she traces a path from the lives of her grandparents in early twentieth century poland, through two world wars, life under communism and the subsequent liberation, to her own experiences as a migrant living in britain on the isle of wightsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Set of 6volumes old war books the history of the great european war,author stanley macbean knight, in fair condition
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From aviso grille, hitlers war yacht when in hartlepool coal dock in when brought back to uk at the end of the second world war
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war books printed by odhams press london 6 books bound in wine leather printed probley in every page has black and white photos and priint telling the story of the second world war in mint condition and been in the family since new
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham the upheavals of the second world war reverberated in the peace that followed, and many found a return to the old life more difficult than they had anticipatedbetween them their young son joe strives to fulfil the conflicting expectations of childhood and adolescence and confronts his own demonsyet now, a few months on, he has settled for a job in wigton's paper factory, and believes he has put both his aspirations and his memories of fighting in burma behind himlike sam richardson, who was determined to break free of the constraints of his background and leave cumbria for the promised land of australiahis wife, ellen, begins to know better, realising how close to the brink their marriage had comecrafted with potent understatement and acute insight into the twists and turns of the heart, this is a formidable successor to melvyn bragg's widely praised and award-winning novel, the soldier's return see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham longlisted for the booker prize after the upheavals of the second world war, the richardson family - sam, ellen and their young son joe - settle back to working-class life in the cumbrian town of wigtonsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreyet for them, as for so many, life will never be the same againas the old order begins to be challenged and new vistas open, sam and ellen forge their future together with differing needs and desires - and conflicting expectations of joe, who grows up with his own demons to confront
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The lord of the rings: the war of the ring (pc: windows, )
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For sale complete set the history of the great european war 10 books in reasonable condition for age nice addition to any collection read more
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Title: : the history of the first world warpublication dateauthor(s): stevenson, davidbinding: paperback
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Oxfam bookshop knutsford from the beginning of the colonial period to the recent conflicts in the middle east, encounters with the muslim world have helped americans define national identity and purposewith increasing doubts about the institution of slaveryfocusing on america's encounter with the barbary states of north africa from to , robert allison traces the perceptions and mis-perceptions of islam in the american mind as the new nation constructed its ideology and system of governmentallison's study provides a context for understanding more recent developments, such as america's tendency to demonize figures like iran's khumaini, libya's qaddafi, and iraq's saddameaton, eighteenth century studies see oxfam website for delivery information read morebulliet, journal of interdisciplinary history"this book should be widely read"a powerful ending that explains how the experience with the barbary states compelled many americans to look inwardlesch, middle east journal"allison's incisive and informative account of the fledgling republic's encounter with the muslim world is a revelation with a special pertinence to today's international scene
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Pair of beautiful kakarikis forsale had a round at the beginning of the year in the aviary with other birds god condition only for sale as need to make room birds read more
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In this study, nigel moor examines the history and politics of planning, from the beginning of the 20th century to the present dayoxfam bookshop hexham few subjects court such widespread controversy as urban and regional planninglooks unread, in as new condition see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop skipton draws together a rich variety of music from oriental, medieval and renaissance composers to the beginning of the seventeenth centurysigned 'joyce l collins' by a previous owneroriginal dustcover, binding tight and pages cleansee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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They had a litter at the beginning of the year and produced black self and tortbuck is a smutty seal point and doe is chocolate selfonly rehoming due to focusing on netherlandsboth live separatelythe buck is 16 months and the doe is 14 monthsi have a breeding pair of mini lops
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We bought at the beginning of the lockdowns believing they were a smaller breedthey come as a pair so they have companypair of 2 year old albino rabbits (plus brand new outdoor run)one boy one girl - neither neutered/spayed (but we've had no babies in 18 months so far!) really beautiful - one is quite cuddly and the other a bit more independentthey started as indoor rabbits but we moved them outside as they got too big for our tiny house! we want them to have a lovely homethey are now full size and we just feel they deserve more room, though we will miss them very much as will our 6 year old boyplease don't waste our time as this is a delicate situation with our little boy and we don't want to string out them leaving us for a better home, or to be disappointed or let down only to have to gear ourselves up to say goodbye againthey will need a large hutch (don't be fooled by online searches as they can look bigger than they seem!) and a large area to run and skip around in
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We bought at the beginning of the lockdowns believing they were a smaller breedthey come as a pair so they have companymeet snowball and frosty! a pair of 18-month-old albino rabbits (plus brand new outdoor run)one boy one girl - neither neutered/spayed (but we've had no babies in 18 months so far!) really beautiful - one is quite cuddly and the other a bit more independentthey started as indoor rabbits but we moved them outside as they got too big for our tiny house! we want them to have a lovely homethey are now full size and we just feel they deserve more room, though we will miss them very much as will our 6 year old boyplease don't waste our time as this is a delicate situation with our little boy and we don't want to string out them leaving us for a better home, or to be disappointed or let down only to have to gear ourselves up to say goodbye againthey will need a large hutch (don't be fooled by online searches as they can look bigger than they seem!) and a large area to run and skip around in
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